Engineering Manager, Platform

Role overview As an Engineering Manager for a platform team, you’ll lead engineers improving the shared infrastructure and internal developer platform that supports both engineering teams and external users. The work spans areas such as observability, CI/CD, developer environments, and storage, combining people leadership with technical direction and product thinking. The goal is to help teams build and operate software with greater reliability, security, and speed.

Responsibilities - Lead, hire, and develop platform engineers through mentorship, feedback, and clear technical guidance. - Set direction for platform systems and guide architecture and system design decisions. - Drive initiatives from early planning through launch, breaking complex work into useful milestones. - Work with engineering, product, runtime, and security partners to understand needs and set priorities. - Improve developer experience, reliability, security, and engineering velocity through platform capabilities and team practices. - Encourage ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement while maintaining strong quality standards.

Requirements - 8+ years as an engineer on infrastructure or a similar team delivering tools or products for developers. - 4+ years managing and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management. - Strong grounding in system design, architecture, and technical tradeoffs. - Experience translating engineering goals and user needs into roadmaps and shipped improvements. - Clear communication and collaboration across engineering, product, and design. - Experience improving reliability or developer experience through tools, processes, or team practices.

Nice to have - Experience with open-source technologies in internal platforms, clusters, build and deployment systems, CI/CD, observability, or configuration management. - Background in scalable distributed systems or infrastructure platforms. - Experience supporting fleets of developer environments, sandboxes, or testing systems, or building products used directly by developers.

Benefits and work setup - Four weeks of paid vacation and 14 weeks of paid parental leave. - Employer-paid medical coverage, plus dental and vision coverage for employees and a dependent; FSA and HSA options. - Disability and life insurance, and a 401(k) plan. - Monthly lifestyle, phone, and internet subsidies; remote home-office stipends or Bay Area commuter benefits. - Learning support. New visa sponsorship is generally unavailable; existing visa transfers may be considered with business approval.